Apple OS X Symbolic Link Attack Vulnerability

Apple OS X is the operating system used by the Apple family of machines. A symbolic link attack vulnerability exists in Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11.1. The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform an unspecified symbolic link attack via a crafted application to perform arbitrary write to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability (USN-2747-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2747-1 advisory. Dario Weisser discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled certain IOCTL writes. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root...

USN-2747-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability

Dario Weisser discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled certain IOCTL writes. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges...

USN-2747-1 nvidia-graphics-drivers-304, nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-340, nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-346, nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates, jockey vulnerability

Dario Weisser discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled certain IOCTL writes. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges...

QEMU Programmable Interrupt Timer Controller Heap Overflow Exploit

Exploit for multiple platform in category dos / poc Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=419c4 The programmable interrupt timer PIT controller in QEMU does not correctly validate the channel number when performing IO writes to the device controller, allowing...

QEMU - Programmable Interrupt Timer Controller Heap Overflow

QEMU - Programmable Interrupt Timer Controller Heap Overflow Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=419c4 The programmable interrupt timer PIT controller in QEMU does not correctly validate the channel number when performing IO writes to the device controller,...

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Drawing and Bitmap Handling

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Drawing and Bitmap Handling Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=396&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id A nasty looking crash is manifesting in various different ways under fuzzing, apparentl...

The vulnerability of Google Chrome browser allows a perpetrator to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the IndexedDB implementation in Google Chrome’s browser is related to the use of memory after it is freed. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service interruptions by manipulating data write operations...

FreeBSD : xen-tools -- Potential unintended writes to host MSI message data field via qemu (af38cfec-27e7-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : Logic is in place to avoid writes to certain host config space fields when the guest must nevertheless be able to access their virtual counterparts. A bug in how this logic deals with accesses spanning multiple fields allows the guest to write to the host MSI message dat...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

docker: symlink traversal on container respawn allows local privilege escalation

Libcontainer 1.6.0, as used in Docker Engine, allows local users to escape containerization "mount namespace breakout" and write to arbitrary file on the host system via a symlink attack in an image when respawning a container...

Fedora 21 : xen-4.4.2-5.fc21 (2015-9466)

Potential unintended writes to host MSI message data field via qemu XSA-128, CVE-2015-4103, PCI MSI mask bits inadvertently exposed to guests XSA-129, CVE-2015-4104, Guest triggerable qemu MSI-X pass-through error messages XSA-130, CVE-2015-4105, Unmediated PCI register access in qemu XSA-131,...

xen-tools -- Potential unintended writes to host MSI message data field via qemu

The Xen Project reports: Logic is in place to avoid writes to certain host config space fields when the guest must nevertheless be able to access their virtual counterparts. A bug in how this logic deals with accesses spanning multiple fields allows the guest to write to the host MSI message data...

IBM Security SiteProtector System Directory Traversal Vulnerability

The IBM Security SiteProtector System is a centralized management system that unifies the management and analysis of network, server and endpoint security agents and devices. A directory traversal vulnerability exists in IBM Security SiteProtector System, which allows remote attackers to write to...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2015:0526-1)

glibc has been updated to fix four security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2014-7817: The wordexp function in GNU C Library aka glibc 2.21 did not enforce the WRDENOCMD flag, which allowed context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by input...

[SECURITY] [DLA 221-1] tiff security update

Package : tiff Version : 3.9.4-5+squeeze12 CVE ID : CVE-2014-8128 CVE-2014-8129 CVE-2014-9330 CVE-2014-9655 Debian Bug : 773987 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the LibTIFF library and utilities for the Tag Image File Format. These could lead to a denial of service, information...

Oracle Linux 5 : kvm (ELSA-2015-0869)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0869 advisory. - Resolves: bz1152982 CVE-2014-3610 kernel: kvm: noncanonical MSR writes rhel-5.11.z Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly fro...

kvm security update

kvm-83-270.0.1.el511 - Added kvm-add-oracle-workaround-for-libvirt-bug.patch - Added kvm-Introduce-oel-machine-type.patch kvm-83-270.el5 - KVM: x86: Check non canonical addresses upon WRMSR - Resolves: bz1152982 CVE-2014-3610 kernel: kvm: noncanonical MSR writes rhel-5.11.z kvm-83-269.el5 - KVM:...

USN-2549-1 libarchive vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the libarchive bsdcpio utility extracted absolute paths by default without using the --insecure flag, contrary to expectations. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting cpio archives containing absolute paths, a remote attacker may be able to write to...

Updated libxfont package fixes security vulnerabilities

The bdf parser reads a count for the number of properties defined in a font from the font file, and allocates arrays with entries for each property based on that count. It never checked to see if that count was negative, or large enough to overflow when multiplied by the size of the structures...